Catching up on Twin Peaks. Really, how successful can a guy be if he just stumbles from disaster to disaster, not understanding things, speaking in bits of sentences and just agreeing with the last person he spoke to? I mean, that's just....

"On and on, you fall towards herCold embrace in shadowed doorwayOffers nothing, still she draws youEver to her

On and on and on, you stumble onTowards the sinking sunTurn a blind eye, fight or runRest assured, the night will come

On and on you grasp and guessAnd search for patterns in the messOf what has been, and what is leftTo yet endure"

You know the way you get a song stuck in your head? We I have this one - from Ned Rierson's unexpected solo in Tim Minchin's superb Groundhog Day musical - for a week now. Melancholy doesn't cover it. Thought I'd share.

So today I'm wondering why Joss Whedon having secret extra-marital affairs bars him from being a feminist icon (specifically). Did the other participants in these affairs have no agency? Did all the mooning over lipstick-lesbians and short-skirted ass-kickers in his work somehow suggest a puritanical mein that he has betrayed? Does disrespecting an individual equate to disrespecting a whole gender?

He's bit of a git, maybe, but I can't see why it should bother anyone but his family.

Having googled an image of Whedon, congratulations seem more in order than condemnation.*

More pressing and of much greater importance is the revelation that it's pronounced

sink-ayyyy-vitch

... the thing in which you wash your face, followed by the Fonz's catchphrase, then what Angela Merkel dresses up as for Hallowe'en. I always said Shanky-vitch, but Dave Gibbons describes his fellow artist as a friend, so he should know:

So today I'm wondering why Joss Whedon having secret extra-marital affairs bars him from being a feminist icon (specifically). Did the other participants in these affairs have no agency? Did all the mooning over lipstick-lesbians and short-skirted ass-kickers in his work somehow suggest a puritanical mein that he has betrayed? Does disrespecting an individual equate to disrespecting a whole gender?

He's bit of a git, maybe, but I can't see why it should bother anyone but his family.

As I said before,it can be hard to separate artist from the art these days.